The Two-Way

10:47 am

Tue January 22, 2013

Prince Harry On Killing Taliban: 'Take A Life To Save A Life'

Prince Harry, known when on duty as "Capt. Wales," in the cockpit of an Apache helicopter while he was in Afghanistan last month.

John Stillwell/PA wire/poolEPA /Landov

"We fire when we have to," and sometimes that means you "take a life to save a life."

That's one of the comments circulating today from Britain's Prince Harry, who talked in recent months — for interviews now being posted — about his second tour of duty with the British Army in Afghanistan. It's seen as confirmation, correspondent Larry Miller tells our Newscast Desk from London, of earlier reports that the prince had been involved in the use of lethal force during his time with combat troops there.

Now that "Capt. Wales," as he's known while on duty, is out of the war zone, news outlets that interviewed him while he was at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan are releasing their video reports. They were given access to the prince in return for promises to hold off on reporting until he was gone so as not to put either the prince or his comrades in more danger.